Rochester Engineering Society Magazine June 2016

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JUNE 2016

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114th RES Annual Gala Photos (cover)

The Rochester Engineer Published since 1922 by

ROCHESTER ENGINEERING SOCIETY, INC.

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Founded March 18, 1897

Volume 95, Number 1, JUNE 2016 3,500 to 4,000 Monthly Circulation ISSN 0035-7405

RES Mission Statement: The RES will become the lead organization for improving the image and influence of the engineering community in the greater Rochester area by: Demonstrating a comprehensive knowledge of the region’s engineering and technical capabilities; Providing the best clerical support and public relations assistance to our affiliates; Continually communicating the engineering and technical accomplishments to both the engineering and technical community and the public; Providing regular forums and networking opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of issues; and, Providing programs that identify career opportunities to the region’s youth and develop the skills of the practicing engineer.

News items and articles are invited. Materials should be submitted to the executive director at the society’s office, 657 East Avenue, Rochester, New York 14607; Phone number (585) 254-2350, e-mail: admin@roceng.org

The web site for the Engineers’ Center is at: www.roceng.org. The deadline is the 10th day of the month prior to the issue. Unless otherwise stated, opinions expressed in this publication are those of contributors, not of the Rochester Engineering Society, Inc. Advertising information may be obtained by contacting the office of the Rochester Engineering Society or going to the website at www.roceng.org.

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5 • The RES Tutoring Team at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy is beginning to Look for Tutors for Next Fall, and the 2016-17 School Year 6 • 114th RES Annual Gala Photos

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8 • Get IT Done - Big Data, Big Data, Big Data 9 • Get to the Point! - US Government Must Use "Plain Language" 10 • The Limited Monopoly - The Licensing and Royalty Route - One Option for Patent Monetization

12 • Thank you to our Sponsors: 2016 RES Annual Gala 13, 22-23 • News From Professional Firms 14 • STEM - Put an Engineer in the Classroom!

15, 24, 26-27 • Campus News 16-18 • Position Openings

Published every month but July. Yearly subscription is $20.00, single copies are $2.00.

18-19 • Professional Firms - Employee News

Go to www.roceng.org to join the Rochester Engineering Society. Click on the individual membership and you can submit your application on-line.

20 • Continuing Education Opportunities (PDHs)

Board of Directors:

OFFICERS: President JON KRIEGEL Retired / jkriegel@rochester.rr.com First Vice President MICHAEL V. TRIASSI Optimation Technology, Inc. / mike.triassi@gmail.com Second Vice President SCOTT GRASMAN, PhD Rochester Institute of Technology / Email: scott.grasman@rit.edu Acting Treasurer MICHAEL V. TRIASSI Optimation Technology, Inc. / mike.triassi@gmail.com Past President ADAM CUMMINGS, PE Barton & Loguidice, PC / ACummings@bartonandloguidice.com DIRECTORS: CORNELIUS (NEAL) ILLENBERG PE Retired / nillenberg@aol.com LEE LOOMIS Retired / leeloomis46@gmail.com RICHARD E. RICE, PE MJ Engineering / rriceaquash@gmail.com JOSEPH DOMBROWSKI, PE M/E Engineering / jdombrowski@meengineering.com BARRY QUINN Retired NYSDOT / BarryQuinn@aol.com FAHRETTIN (FAZ) BAY LaBella Associates DPC / Fahrettinbay@gmail.com DANIELLE WALTERS Harris Corporation/ dwalters710@gmail.com TBA Rochester Institute of Technology Administrative Director LYNNE M. IRWIN Rochester Engineering Society / e-mail: admin@roceng.org

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20-23 • Engineers’ Calendar 44-46 • Directory of Professional Services 46 • Directory of Business Services 47 • Affiliated Societies and Corporate Members of the RES Membership Application and Advertising Rates are on the website: www.roceng.org.

news of the...

• ABCD Association for Bridge Construction and Design...............36-37 • AFE Association for Facilities Engineering...........................................42 • APWA American Public Works Association...........................................32 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers............................................28 • ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers..............................................30-31 • ASPE American Society of Plumbing Engineers....................................38 • EA Electrical Association.......................................................................43 • GVLSA Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association.............................40

• IEC Independent Entrepreneurs Council...........................................33 • IES Illuminating Engineering Society....................................................41 • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.................34-35 • INCOSE International Council of Systems Engineering...........................29 • IS&T Imaging Science and Technology...................................................27 • MPES Monroe Professional Engineers Society......................................39 • RES Rochester Engineering Society.................................................... 3-7 • SWE Society of Women Engineers........................................................25

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President’s Message Adam Cummings, PE RES President 2015 - 16 ‘Tis the Season Greetings everyone! My sincere thanks to everyone that attended our Annual Meeting at the RMSC. It was a great gathering celebrating the past year’s accomplishments and thanking those individuals that dedicated their time and talents to the RES. Most notably, Casey Dill and Esther Betancourt. Thanks for all of your help these past 2 years. Time sure has flown by. Lastly, a heart-felt welcome to our new Board Members and a huge thank you (and relief ) to Jon Kriegel as I hand over the RES Presidential Reigns to our new RES President.

Now onto this month’s article theme…We are now in full growing season. The lawn mower has now swapped spots with the snow blower in the garage and shorts have replaced flannel jeans in my dresser. Of course, thanks to the glory of Netflix, my 4-year-old is still watching Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas…even in the middle of the summer! But he does take the time to help me with the lawn, but his bubble-blowing mower is not as efficient at cutting as I would like.

This brings me to this month’s article theme…mowing season. I am intrigued how mowing has migrated from biological to mechanical means over history.

It’s awe-inspiring how much engineering has gone into yesteryear’s and today’s mowing machines. Often overlooked, our engineering profession has brought us a long way from those old days of horse-drawn or muscle-powered scythes and reel mowers. The list of engineering innovations is endless: cutting cylinders, fixed cutting blades, material science for lightweight frames, mulching blades, and advanced transmissions.

My favorite type is on my Father’s Day List. I’m hoping my family gets the hint and a robotic mower shows up at the front stoop.

With that, Happy Father’s Day to all of the dads out there. Now go out into the sunshine and enjoy the “ease” of mowing the lawn thanks to our engineering peers.

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Rochester History Continuing with the historical sampling of the earlier writings on behalf of the Rochester Engineering Society, the years following "The Great War," into and through the “Great Depression,” continued to be a time of reaching out for the maturing Society, both locally and nationally. The meeting minutes describe a series of technical discussions and presentations intended to broaden the technical horizons of the membership (especially the CE's, ME's and EE's). The RES affiliated itself with a number of National technical societies, adopted local Affiliated Societies, frequently held joint meetings with them and continued taking action on a growing list of public matters.

Certain issues of standardization, some crucial to public safety, became the responsibility of the RES and its affiliates. In the pervasive economic downturn of the “Great Depression,” the magazine offered classified advertising for unemployed engineers, technicians and draftsmen and took other steps to try to deal with the crisis. Still, it continued its effort to shape the function, purpose and infrastructure of the City of Rochester, and beyond. Soon, war would again affect the Society, taking away many of its leaders while providing opportunities for others to step forward to fill these vacancies. In an effort to provide even greater perspective on the happenings and concerns of the day, a synopsis, featuring selected items from "The Rochester Engineer" has become an integral part of this series. The Second World War and the Korean Conflict are now history. These experiences have changed the face and, no doubt, the future of the community. The Rochester municipal leadership and the industrial community have become immersed in the cold-war, growth economy.

“The Rochester Engineer” (January 1964)

To assure that every high school student with potential for engineering as a career has an opportunity to pursue these studies, the Engineering Council of Professional Development (ECPD) has set a goal of having at least one engineer available to guide each of the 30,000 high schools in the US. Called “Guidance Engineers,” the ECPD says these volunteers speak at school assemblies, advise in-school Junior Engineering Technical Societies (JETS) and individual students, all toward closing the widening gap between the supply of engineers coming from colleges and the anticipated demand from the rapidly growing space, defense and consumer needs. As this (January) issue is the traditional “Automotive Number,” the feature article “Some Facts, Opinions and Observations of Extended Lubrication of Passenger Cars,” the RES Automotive Committee provided guidance an recommendations for lubricants (seven different types of chassis grease), the post-production installation of lubrication fittings (Editor’s note: remember ball-joints?) and the changing of transmission oil (every 10,000 – 15,000 miles). The RES announced (officially) the retirement of Oliver L. Angevine, PE, the first (1924) RES Executive Secretary, after over 40 years of service to the Society, and the hiring of Norman M. Howden, former Science Writer with the D & C (18 years) and more recently, Public Relations News Bureau Manager with StrombergCarlson (8 years) to succeed Mr. Angevine.

February 17, 1964 (Executive Committee Meeting, Sheraton Hotel) A membership application from George S. Beinetti, of Rochester Telephone Corporation, was approved. Reporting for the Public Affairs Committee, Alexander F. Beebee, Jr. reviewed plans for an “Engineers’ Joint Dinner,” with Gen. Lucius D. Clay as keynote speaker. The dinner, to be held at the Chamber of Commerce, would be preceded by a reception for Gen. Clay, hosted by General Motors at the Genesee Valley Club. Also received and approved, was a report by F. Dow Hamblin, Chair of the Special Sub-Committee of the RES Public Affairs Committee, recommending that Col. Carey H. Brown, City of Rochester Engineer (retired), be named as “Engineer of the Year – 4 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

A Sampling from the Archives of the Rochester Engineering Society...1897 - 1964

by Lee M. Loomis

1963.” The presentation of this, the first RES “Engineer of the Year” Award, would be made at the Engineers’ Joint Dinner, on February 20, 1964. With the impending disposal of the RES Library (and subsequent reduced need for floor space), the RES House Committee received a proposal from the Sheraton Hotel, for a smaller office space, on the same floor, for $100/month (down from the current $183/month).

This Committee also reported that an application had been made to the Rochester Chamber of Commerce for space on the 2nd Floor South Balcony at 55 St. Paul Street, for an RES office. In response to a request from the Rochester Council of Scientific Societies, it was agreed that the RES would provide a consultant to the Annual High School Science Fair, at Brockport State University. Recommendations contained in a report of the RES Policy Committee, and approved by the Executive Committee, resulted in a request that the Constitution and By-Laws Committee prepare the necessary document revisions, for approval by the general membership.

“The Rochester Engineer” (February 1964)

This issue highlighted the Society’s observance of National Engineers’ Week, with the scheduling of the Engineers’ Joint Dinner, to be held on February 20th, at the Chamber of Commerce. Anticipated attendance was over 400 engineers and their guests. The keynote speaker was Gen. Lucius D. Clay, former US Military Governor and Commander-inChief, Europe (1947 – 49), during the Berlin Airlift. A 1918 graduate of the US Military Academy, Gen. Clay later Chaired President Eisenhower’s Advisory Committee on the National Highway Program and served as US Ambassador to Berlin under President Kennedy, during the Soviet Union’s construction of the Berlin Wall.

March 17, 1964 (Executive Committee Meeting, Sheraton Hotel) A membership application from Dr. Edward Kirkpatrick, of Rochester Institute of Technology, was approved. The Executive Committee discussed ways for reducing the Society’s expenditures and increasing receipts, including expediting the liquidation of the RES Library, to facilitate moving into smaller quarters. Tentative plans for an RES excursion to the General Dynamics/Electronics Sonar Research Barge on Seneca Lake were discussed, as well as a proposal to hold the RES Annual meeting a Monroe Golf Club, in Pittsford. In an article, “Why Modern Architecture,” Michael Doran, Public Relations Chair of the Rochester Society of Architects, announced a two-week exhibition at the Memorial Art Gallery, to be followed by a one-week public exhibition at Midtown Plaza. The exhibition would provide insight into the process of combining function, space, form, materials and imagination to meeting a client’s requirements. The centerpiece of this exhibition was to be the new, “beautiful and superbly functional” (1963) Greece Public Library, by Waasdorp, Northrup & Kaelber, Architects.

Subsequent articles in this series will describe the RES' continuing outreach to other technical societies as it considered its role in this and the larger community, along with more of the activities of the RES as it moved to be of greater service to its membership, especially those suffering from the current economic crisis, and adopted a greater role in shaping the future of the City and its environs. Noted also, will be the contributions made by RES members in the struggle to meet the challenges coming out of World War II, as well as a hoped-for period of post-war growth and prosperity. These articles will also feature an impressive array of RES activities in support of post-war re-emergence of Rochester area industry.

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RES News The RES Tutoring Team at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy is Beginning To Look for Tutors for next Fall, and the 2016-17 School Year Bergmann Associates, PC, joins the RES Tutoring Team.

Back in December, a team of ten professionals from Bergmann Associates, PC, began their weekly schedule of tutoring at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy. With each one, working one day per month, divided into two teams, they are the equivalent of two weekly tutors, supporting our #10 School students. We thank Bergmann CEO, Tom Mitchell (also a member of the Bergmann Tutoring Team), for his vision in encouraging this effort.

We are beginning to line up our Tutoring Team, for the 2016-17 school year. We are currently scheduling

“Lunch & Learn” presentations in several Rochester area firms and professional groups, to inform and inspire prospective new tutors. We want to “hit the ground, running” in September. We will need your support...Can we schedule a presentation with your firm, work group, church or family?

Michelle Sommerman, Tutoring Team Coordinator from Bergmann Associates, helps two students from Ms. Goode’s 1st Grade with a reading lesson

At the RES 2016 GALA, on April 16th, you may have met members of RES Tutoring Team at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy, hosted by Bergmann Associates. The team currently includes full-time, employed Professional Engineers, recently-graduated engineers, retired engineers, retired school teachers, U of R and RIT undergraduate and graduate students, local business leaders and employees using their “flex-time” to spend a few hours a week as tutors.

Whether or not you think you have the time to commit to it right now, please contact us, learn

about this successful program and the opportunity it offers us to “make a difference” in Rochester’s City Schools. Let us come and meet with you, your business associates, family members, friends, neighbors.

Even just two hours a week of your time can make a big difference in the life of a student. Hear about the training each tutor will receive. Please contact the RES Office, and let us know you’re interested in tutoring at Dr. Walter Cooper Academy - School #10, 353 Congress Avenue (in the 19th Ward, one block North of Genesee Park Blvd., between Post Avenue and Virginia Avenue).

Questions??? Reach out to RES Past President Lee Loomis and the RES Tutoring Team at…

Rochester Engineering Society, (585) 254-2350 via website: www.roceng.org or via email: leeloomis46@gmail.com (585) 738-3079 (mobile & text)

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114th RES Annual Gala Saturday, April 16, 2016

Additional Photos on the RES Website: www.roceng.org 6 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

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Matthew T. Sidley

2015 Kate Gleason Young Engineer of the Year

Matthew H. Fronk Robert L. Clark, Jr., PhD 2015 Engineer of the Year

James R. McIntosh, PE

Dennis J. Sugumele, PE

2015 Engineer of Distinction

Lower Center: Melissa Dubots, SWE Scholarship Recipient; far right - Jodi Carville, RES Gala Chair cover article

2015 Engineer of Distinction

2015 Engineer of Distinction

Announcements during the Gala by Emcee Jennifer Johnson, 13 WHAM News Anchor

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IT done

BIG DATA. BIG DATA. BIG DATA - André Godfrey

“Data is like people – interrogate it hard enough and it will tell you whatever you want to hear.”

I don’t know whom to attribute that quote to but I loved it when I first saw it. Still do. It appeals to my cynical nature where not only am I skeptical of lies, damn lies and statistics but I appreciate that finding information ‘on the internet’ is no more factual than its predecessor, ‘I read it in a book’. We never seem to run out of authorities that bend the facts to their liking.

The quote above is also apropos to this article because conversations surrounding Big Data (big B, big D) have arrived at my water cooler and like so many things in the IT industry, the technologies go from being embryonic to mature in a hurry and Big Data appears to be no exception.

Assuming and presuming this area may be new to you, let’s both ‘catch-up’ together. I find simple and familiar correlations work best so think of Big Data in terms of mining for gold. It’s not original but it’s a fairly appropriate analogy since it appears to have a lot in common with gold mining.

In gold mining, you decide that there’s something precious in the dirt and you sift through a lot of dirt to find it.

In fact you wash the dirt away, useless to you except for the occasional nugget that may be significant in value, or not as the case may be. That’s Big Data as well. In the new world there is a plethora of information. It’s all over the place. And there are mountains of it. Some of it is structured information like a contact list. Some of it is unstructured like comments on social media about your company. Big Data does not care if the information is structured or unstructured data, it sifts through all the dirt looking for information that might appear as a customer trend, a shift in consumer spending, a new competitive threat. Information that is business gold.

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In short there are three elements to Big Data.

1) The Gathering 2) The Analysis 3) Visualization I made up “the gathering.” It’s not an industry term but it describes the process of digging up everything, churning it up and deciding what’s dirt and what’s gold.

The analysis comes from finding the gold and determining whether it truly is gold and worth the effort. There’s fool’s gold in Big Data as well. This element reminds me of the story of the business analyst who was an airline passenger on a four engine jet. The captain said “we lost an engine… we are perfectly safe…but our arrival time will be delayed by an hour. Another engine goes down and the captain tells the passengers they are safe but the flight will be two hours late to arrive. And the third engine goes…the business analyst turns to another passenger and say “I hope we don’t lose the fourth engine, we’ll be up here forever.”

The third element is visualization. After we gather and sift and analyze, it is extraordinarily helpful to be able to communicate the gold in a way that others can easily understand. Luckily, there are tools for all of these elements.

My cavalier remarks aside, whether analyzing world cancer research studies, improving agriculture applications or using Big Data in geology and actually finding gold deposits, Big Data is a remarkable newer technology that may make the world a little bit better.

Think about IT.

André Godfrey is President/CEO of Entre Computer Services, www.entrecs.com

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Get to the Point!

US Government Must Use "Plain Language" Say what you want about the US Government and some of the decisions they make, but finally, here’s one that makes sense and will affect all of us.

After decades of government discussion spanning several administrations, “The Plain Writing Act of 2010” was signed by President Obama and went into affect in October 2011. What does this mean to us? Federal agencies are required to write clear, concise, and complete information that the general public can understand. The US is not the first nation to promote this; Britain, Portugal, South Africa, and Sweden have been doing this for years.

Finally, the bureaucratic government organizations are catching up with what technical writers (and RGI) have been promoting for a century! The law goes as far as banning certain words.

Here’s an example of some of the words the must be eliminated from the government language: practicable promulgated pursuant thereunder commencing in accordance with herein precluded heretofore evidenced I am particularly excited about the mandate that the documents use the first person and active voice when possible. For years, I have been promoting both techniques in my courses and articles.

So now, the Government, will become more “human” and refer to themselves as “we” and the citizens as “you”. Government agencies will also be replacing “Is it requested...” with a simple “Please”.

Take a look at what the result will be: Before: Before an individual can be determined eligible for Disaster Unemployment Assistance, it must be established that the individual is not eligible for regular unemployment insurance benefits.

Revised: You can get financial help from Disaster Unemployment Assistance if your job was lost or interrupted as a direct result of a major disaster declared by the President of the Unites States.

Before: Timely preparation, including structural and nonstructural mitigation measures to avoid the impacts of severe get to the point

winter weather, can avert heavy personal, business and government expenditures. Experts agree that the following measures can be effective in dealing with the challenges of severe winter weather.

Revised: Severe winter weather can be extremely dangerous.

Consider these safety tips to protect your property and yourself.

Although this statement, taken directly from the guidelines, is humorous, it certainly brings home the point to the federal document writers: "Federal writers are not supposed to be creating great literature.

You are communicating requirements, how to get benefits, how to stay safe and healthy, and other information to help people in their lives. While there is no problem with being expressive, most federal writing has no place for literary flair. People do not curl up in front of the fire with a nice federal regulation to have a relaxing read.”

So what does this mean for engineers? For those of you who work for or with government agencies, your writing will be expected to be shorter, more direct, and use simple words.

Engineers are at fault too. Take a look at this: Before: This proposal is made subject to the General Conditions of Service attached hereto. If you are in agreement with this proposal, kindly sign below indicating your notice to proceed and acceptance of the terms and conditions stated herein.

Revised: This proposal corresponds to the attached General Conditions of Service. To proceed with the project, we need your signature below, which indicates your acceptance of the outlined terms and conditions.

For the rest of us, we might actually understand the government information we read. I use to say “You don’t want to write like a stuffy, bureaucratic government agency.” Perhaps, in the near future, I’ll have to change my example.

For more information about Plain Language and the laws visit http://centerforplainlanguage.org/.

RGI Learning offers workshops in conflict resolution and communication skills. © 2016, RGI Learning Lisa Moretto is the President of RGI Learning, Inc. For 22 years she has helped engineers improve their oral and written communication skills. Visit www.rgilearning.com or call (866) 744-3032 to learn about RGI’s courses.

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The Limited Monopoly® The Licensing and Royalty Route - One Option for Patent Monetization

by John Hammond, PE and Robert Gunderman, PE

The Concept…

The concept of a “royalty” as an economic construction has a long history. Not surprisingly, the concept relates to the use of the word to describe ancestry – “royal lineage” – and likely dates back at least several centuries, when most of the world was ruled by kings. The MerriamWebster Dictionary lists one historical definition of the word as “a right or perquisite of a sovereign (as a percentage paid to the crown of gold or silver taken from mines).”1 A broad definition more aligned with contemporary economics is a payment made by one party in exchange for the right to use an asset owned by another party.

Of course, there are a variety of assets for which licenses to use may be granted by their owners, including oil, gas, and mineral rights, franchise rights, and intellectual property rights. The latter category is also very broad, and includes art, music, literature, brands, and inventions. The rights to these intellectual property assets may be protected by copyrights, trademarks, and patents, and in some instances, combinations of them.

"By a “patent license,” the patent owner grants the right to practice the patented invention, and in effect permits the party to infringe the patent, in exchange for payment of a royalty.” arrangement, and may seem like the least stressful one to the patent owner, it is not the only path to monetization, and it also may not be the most financially rewarding one. When a party clearly infringes a strong patent that is likely to survive a validity challenge, the patent owner has considerable leverage. The infringing party has invested in the resources to make and market the claimed invention, and is at risk of the court ordering its production to be shut down, and to pay monetary damages to the patent owner.

Under these circumstances, the likely best course of action for the infringing party is to engage in a settlement, in which the patent owner withdraws the suit in exchange for a royalty payment (and possibly other considerations). The royalty payment may include a lump sum, as well as periodic payments for the ongoing licensing of the patent. Given the leverage that the patent owner has, the financial terms will likely be considerably more adverse to the infringing party than they would have been, had the infringing party made the effort to approach the owner upfront before proceeding to invest money and resources in the infringing actions.

…As Applied to Patents

Inventions are of course protected by patents. A patent is a property right – the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, or importing a covered product, or practicing a covered method in the jurisdiction (i.e. country) of issuance. A party that violates this right by performing one or more of these actions infringes the patent. Under such circumstances in the United States, the relevant statute2 states, “A patentee shall have remedy by civil action for infringement of his patent.”3 Accordingly, the patent owner may sue the infringing party in federal court for patent infringement. If the lawsuit is successful, the “remedy” may include an order by the court for the infringing party to cease the infringing actions, and to pay monetary damages to the patent owner.

It follows that when the patent owner grants a “patent license,” the patent owner grants the right to practice the patented invention, and in effect permits the party to infringe the patent, in exchange for payment of a royalty. (The royalty payment is typically monetary, but may include other considerations, including a “crosslicensing” agreement.)

It is common for patent owners and patent licensees to enter into a licensing agreement that sets forth the royalty payments and other licensing terms, before the licensee proceeds to make, use, and/or sell the patented invention. While this path is usually the most amicable 10 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

Unfortunately, even by parties of good will, such diligence is not always possible. In the U.S., some patent applications are not published, and are made public record only when they issue as patents. Moreover, even when patent applications are published, there is considerable uncertainty as to whether they will issue as patents, and if so, what the scope of the claims will be. Therefore, this is simply “a risk of doing business.” Best practices to minimize this risk are to use a patent alert service4, and to know how to track the prosecution progress of a potentially blocking patent application in the USPTO via Public PAIR5,6.

The Art of the License

There are many terms to be negotiated when entering into a patent licensing and royalty agreement. Some of the key considerations in negotiating any agreement are the following: The Limited Monopoly

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• Exclusive or non-exclusive: Will you pursue licensing by only one party, or across several parties that may be in competition with each other? If you grant an exclusive license, you will likely demand a higher royalty payment, and or/more money up front, and have stringent performance standards. Since you are “tying up” your patent(s) with only one party, the latter criteria are critical. You need to be able to terminate the agreement if your exclusive licensee does not perform.

• Performance standards: These are the minimum performance standards that the licensee must meet in order to maintain the license.

Key terms are a minimum amount of sales (and hence a minimum periodic royalty payment), timeliness of payments, and the ability of the patent owner to terminate the agreement if the standards are not met.

• Licensing by market sector/application: Your patented technology may be applicable across a range of market sectors that are not in competition with each other. Thus you may have the opportunity to grant exclusive licenses to a single party within each market sector.

• Licensing by geographical location: You may have the opportunity to grant separate licenses to parties in different geographic locations, particularly if you have obtained patents in multiple countries or regions.

• Royalty rates: Obviously one of the most critical considerations, royalty rates vary considerably across product and industrial sectors, based on many criteria. An important factor to consider is what exactly is being offered as part of the deal. Is it simply a patent for license? Or is the patent owner also offering to bundle other “technology transfer” content that adds value – detailed know-how, consulting support, or even a business case for commercializing the patented technology? In addition to a possible upfront payment upon execution of a licensing agreement, royalties are typically paid as a percentage of gross sales of a patented product. There are several common financial approaches in determining a possible royalty rate: Cost, Comparable Market, and Income methods. How royalty rates may be determined (or proposed in negotiations) using these methods is a subject for an entire column itself. Median royalty rates across a range of industrial sectors mostly range in the 4-6% range, although median internet and software technology royalty rates are around 11%. But the spread is huge – from a few tenths of a percent minimum to as high as 70%. Indeed, this is why due diligence by a patent owner is critical, even before contacting a prospective licensee – you must have some idea what a typical royalty rate is for a patent in your sector. (Independent inventors are often the most disappointed in this regard. Their expectations and reality often differ by an order of magnitude.)

• Licensee audits: The maxim, “Trust, but verify”7 applies well to your licensing agreement. You will want provisions to be able to audit your licensees if you suspect that they are not being truthful in their reporting of sales of the products covered by the license agreement.8 • Enforcement responsibilities: For exclusive licenses, it may be possible to have the licensee carry some or all of the burden of enforcing the patent against infringers. In other cases, the licensee will demand terms for the patent owner to strongly assert the patent against any infringers.

(If infringement is occurring, a licensee would reasonably ask, “Why am I paying a licensing royalty, while Bokshed Inc. is getting away with infringement scot free?”9)

Finding prospects

Identifying a prospective licensee, engaging with the prospect, and successfully executing a licensing agreement is a daunting task. For some patented products, such as certain consumer products, the prospective companies may be obvious. For other products and technologies, a substantial research effort will be required. Conventional internet searching, as well as a search of issued patents and published applications may provide some good leads. Again, using a patent alert service can deliver timely information on new prospect opportunities as they arise.

Once an attractive prospect is identified, then sales skills are needed.

You must identify the right people at the company to contact – the The Limited Monopoly

decision makers who could make a deal with you. You must also analyze their business, and identify the reasons why licensing your patent can help them make money.

Closing the deal

Most importantly, you will need to track down the contact information of the decision makers at the company, contact them directly, and engage with them. Despite this being the age of tweets, texts, and e-mails, nothing is more effective than a face-to face meeting and conversation.

There are many “patent brokering” businesses that will take on these tasks, under various fee arrangements. Some require an upfront fixed fee, and a percentage of the ongoing licensing royalties, while others will take a case entirely on contingency. In many instances, it will depend upon the patent being offered for licensing. No doubt the competence and success rate of patent brokers varies widely. In a sense, if you decide to go the patent broker route, you will have substituted the need to do due diligence on a prospective licensee with the need to do due diligence on the patent broker. Regardless of which path you choose, along the way you should seek the advice of a qualified attorney10 with expertise and experience in patent licensing agreements.

Once you have successfully closed a deal, and have a licensing agreement in place, you are still not home free. You have to collect your royalties.

Compared to all of the problems solved to reach this point, this falls into the “nice problem to have” category. Don’t hesitate to use your audit provisions if you must in order to solve it.

1. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/royalty 2. 35 U.S.C. § 271.

3. See also additional infringement-related statutes, 35 U.S.C. §§ 281-289.

4. See The Limited Monopoly®, April 2016.

5. See The Limited Monopoly®, May 2006.

6. See also The Limited Monopoly®, June 2010.

7. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify for the origin of this maxim.

8. See The Limited Monopoly®, May 2011.

9. http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/04/scot-free-origin/ 10. Readers may contact either of the authors if a referral to a qualified attorney is needed.

To browse the entire searchable library of prior issues of The Limited Monopoly® from 2005 to present, visit www.thelimitedmonopoly.com.

PHOTO CREDIT: R. Gunderman, "1000 Mil Cruzados," circa 1988.

Authors John M. Hammond P.E. (Patent Innovations, LLC www.patent-innovations. com) and Robert D. Gunderman P.E. (Patent Technologies, LLC www.patentechnologies.com) are both registered patent agents and licensed professional engineers. Copyright 2016 John Hammond and Robert Gunderman, Jr. Note: This short article is intended only to provide cursory background information, and is not intended to be legal advice. No client relationship with the authors is in any way established by this article.

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IBC Engineering in the Community Engineers give back to surround Rochester area students interested in the field of engineering.

Since IBC Engineering first opened its doors in 1996, giving back to the community has been a critical component of the company’s business model.

Employees have participated in initiatives supporting Habitat for Humanity, United Way, and most recently, local high school engineering students.

In February, IBC Engineering recognized National Engineers Week. Started by the National Society of Engineers in 1951, this week is observed by more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, as well as more than 50 corporations and government agencies. During this time, professionals are encouraged to increase awareness among youth and celebrate the differences engineers make in the world. To further promote this mission, a group of IBC engineers including Energy Engineer, Rob Hudson; HVAC Engineer, Nick Volker; and Partner/Director of Engineering, Dan Fox visited Pittsford Mendon High School. There they spoke to Principals of Engineering classes about the field of engineering and answered questions about their educational background as well as ongoing district development projects.

Along with Plumbing Department Manager, Al Smith, and Electrical Engineer, Phil Vanderlee, this group of engineers also hosted an Explorer post at the IBC Engineering headquarters in Rochester. Affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America Seneca Waterways Council, the group is composed of more than 10 local high school students interested in the field of engineering.

The program allows both boys and girls to actively work on their own projects with professionals, develop skills applicable to the field and determine if it’s something they want to pursue. In March, the Explorers presented their final projects which featured a variety of disciplines, from HVAC to fire protection. Family and IBC staff were invited to attend this proud moment as well.

“It’s always great to have our younger engineers work with local students to discuss their career paths” explained Director of Engineering, Dan Fox. “The innovation these professionals demonstrate is inspiring. Not to mention, they’re great with students and very relatable. I believe these discussions make a huge impact on the kids, especially those seriously interested in pursuing engineering degrees in college.”

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RES News How do you arm a STEM Teacher with real-world application examples?

Put an Engineer in the classroom!

In the 1990’s, Eastman Kodak Company jumped the gun, starting a family of STEM initiatives, years before the Government coined the STEM acronym. The name of these programs was the 21st Century Learning Challenge (TCLC), and at our peek we were 1500 engineers and technicians. We were visiting Rochester City School Classrooms twice a week for two-hour visits during the entire school year. This effort continued for nearly six years, and not only pre-dates our recent STEM excitement level, but delivered support on a scale we have yet to match.

Many of the volunteers in these programs were, and still are, members of the Rochester Engineering Society (RES). In the intervening twenty-five years, many have retired, or are about to retire. That makes them even more available as STEM Coaches, than they were as Kodak employees.

The RES is working to put technical people in K-12 Classrooms, throughout the Greater Rochester area, as STEM Coaches. Their presence will: • • •

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Support the teachers with not only the delivery of STEM concepts, but perhaps more importantly, the design and delivery of STEM related hardware.

As the RES Volunteer Coordinator, I worked as a STEM Coach doing Classroom Visitation at School #3 for the 2014/15 School Year. That was so successful that RCSD is interested in expanding this program to involve six STEM Coaches this year.

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The RES is specifically seeking retired technical people (Engineers, Technicians, Machinists, Entrepreneurs or anyone whose work would allow them to visit during school hours), as STEM Coaches.

We currently have 24 Coaches, and are connecting them with 12 Rochester-area schools.

“This was a life-changing experience”

For more information contact: Jon Kriegel • jkriegel@rochester.rr.com • 585 281-5216 Volunteer Coordinator & President-elect - Rochester Engineering Society • STEM Coach 14 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

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Campus News RIT’s all-female electric vehicle race team places third overall in first major competition Hot Wheelz also takes home awards for Spirit and gracious professionalism

Hot Wheelz, the all-female race team from Rochester Institute of Technology, finished third in the electric category in its first national event, the Formula Hybrid competition that took place May 2-5 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. The team’s on and off track performance was also recognized with two additional trophies, the GM Spirit of Formula Hybrid and the Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s Gracious Professionalism awards.

Hot Wheelz held its own among a strong field of 30 racecars from universities in the U.S., Canada, India and Turkey. After spending much of Wednesday evening fixing a suspension problem, the team passed the safety inspection to qualify for the endurance race the next morning. Hot Wheelz completed more than half of the required laps;

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This is the 10th annual Formula Hybrid competition, hosted by Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. In the electric category, Binghamton Bearcats topped the field followed by the University of Vermont, Hot Wheelz and the University of Waterloo (Canada).

Shortly after the awards ceremony, the team posted a statement to its Facebook site: “For our first year of competition we couldn’t be happier with our performance. We battled through set backs and mechanical failures and got a chance to get out on the endurance course to show how awesome our car really is. This team is amazing, and we can’t wait to improve in years to come. Thanks to everyone who has supported our team from day 1 and believing we are a team to be reckoned with.” q

RIT joins Property Drone Consortium

RIT research will enhance drones for insurance and construction industries Rochester Institute of Technology was named a technology member of the Property Drone Consortium, a collaboration of insurance carriers, construction industry leaders and supporting enterprises.

The organization promotes research, development, the establishment of regulations and comments on standards for the commercial use of unmanned aircraft systems across the insurance and construction industries. Research focuses on collecting and processing images for inspection and damage detection of building exteriors as well as safety initiatives like collision avoidance and automated flight planning.

The Property Drone Consortium is led

by Gary Sullivan, chairman, and Charles Mondello, president. Charter members include Allstate Corp., American Family Insurance, Auto Owners Insurance, Erie Insurance, EagleView Technologies Inc. and Pilot Catastrophe Services. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety serves as technology adviser and the National Roofing Contractors Association is an honorary member of the collaboration.

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consortium. The affiliation could lead to funding for graduate students to work on problems of interest to the consortium, said David Messinger, director of RIT’s Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. He anticipates research opportunities that focus on roof inspections.

gabled windows, air conditioning units and other roof-top obstacles, he said.

“Using drones allows a level of access to the roof that you can’t get from a typical manned aircraft or satellite,” Messinger said. “It’s a challenging problem because you’re talking about identifying sometimes fairly subtle damage that could still cause leaks and other problems, and damage caused by a storm versus natural aging or fraud.”

“The same sort of technology could be applicable to different things like infrastructure monitoring—inspecting bridges and wind turbines, for instance,” Messinger said.

The imaging technology also stands to increase the efficiency of resolving insurance claims, notes Don McKeown, distinguished researcher in RIT’s Center for Imaging Science.

“Advanced automated image-processing algorithms will greatly improve the accuracy of damage assessment and accelerate the settlement of claims for consumers,” McKeown said.

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Replacing dangerous and manual roof inspections with enhanced unmanned aerial vehicles could lead to a number of related uses for drones.

RIT recently named remote sensing with unmanned aerial vehicles as a signature research initiative at the university. The interdisciplinary program, based in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, will receive $1 million over the next five years to work on challenges facing this industry from integrating UAVs into the national airspace to making use of imaging data collected with sensors that read visual, spectral, thermal or spatial information.

The Unmanned Aerial Systems Center at RIT will act as a “technology bridge” between industries that use drones and those that provide the technology, Messinger said. q

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Position Openings

SENIOR BRIDGE ENGINEER C&S Companies, a national planning, design and engineering company with more than 400 employees in numerous U.S. offices, continues to recruit and retain some of the most knowledgeable and innovative professionals in the business. For more than 45 years, C&S has been a great place to build a rewarding career with opportunities to grow professionally, work on interesting projects and excel in an organization focused on collaboration and excellence. We provide a diverse range of expertise to serve a variety of industries, and we help clients fulfill their goals and visions.

C&S is currently expanding our bridge design practice in New York. As part of this growth, we are planning to add a full time senior bridge engineer.

This position may be filled in any of our current offices located in Albany, Syracuse, Binghamton, Rochester or Buffalo.

We are looking for an individual with both bridge design and project management experience. This position will require management of multiple projects at any one time, following the phase I-VI NYSDOT design process. Experience with successfully completing federal aid projects is required.

This position is design based; however, will require field visits and/or construction inspection at times.

Minimum, Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities: Bridge Inspection and Load Rating experience •Must have thorough knowledge of bridge structural concepts and analysis.

•Must be independent and be able to progress a design with assistance.

•Must be able to manage project budgets and schedules.

•Must be able to prepare scope of services and design contracts.

•Market design services to clients and prepare proposals.

•Experience with STAAD and Virtis is a plus.

•Experience with MicroStation is a plus.

•Construction Inspection experience a plus.

•Must have strong written and oral communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills.

•The ability to work in a professional and interdisciplinary team environment is also required.

Minimum Education & Experience Required: •Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with structural emphasis from an accredited engineering program. Master’s degree preferred but not required.

•Minimum 10 years’ experience in the design of new, and rehabilitation of, single and multi-span bridges and foundations, including truss bridges.

•Experience with New York State Department of Transportation and Locally Administered Federal Aid projects is required.

•New York State Professional Engineer Licensure For more information or to apply for this position, go to http://www.cscos.com/careers/current-openings/.

In return for your hard work and efforts, C&S provides a unique work environment focused on quality, learning, and professional growth.

We provide opportunity for advancement, recognition and rewards programs, and an excellent salary and benefits package for our employees.

C&S Companies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Our employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, color, disability, religious belief, national origin, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, age or gender, or any other protected category.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities • Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

• Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm • The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

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Professional Firms Employee News Turner Announces New Hire Turner Engineering, PC announced the addition of Troy McClure, PE as a plumbing/fire protection project manager.

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Prudent Engineering Announces New Hires Prudent Engineering announces three additions to the company.

Christopher Chambers joins the firm as a survey technician in the East Syracuse office. He earned his AAS in construction technology from Monroe Community College and an AAS in land surveying technology from SUNY ESF. His experience includes conducting construction, topographic, boundary, and cell-tower surveys. Prior to joining, he worked as an instrument operator for Costich Engineering and Land Surveying.

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Also joining the firm is Nicolas Rosati, a senior accountant in the East Syracuse office. With a background in accounting support services, his experience includes processing invoices and analyzing account data. Most recently, Mr. Rosati was the controller for a private medical practice with offices in Syracuse and Modesto, California. Mr. Rosati holds a BA in accounting and an MBA from St. Bonaventure University. q 18 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

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Susan Matzat, PE

Susan Matzat, PE, SECB, LEED AP, the operations manager for the Buildings Engineering Division has been appointed as a vice president of the company. Sue has over 30 years of experience in project management, planning, design, and construction administration for a wide range of building projects. She has managed numerous projects involving structural and hydro-engineering for utility companies and local clients.

Sue has been integral to a growing number of significant clients in the segmented markets that are served by LaBella. As the operations manager, Sue is key in managing the day-to-day business operations and operational initiatives of the Division.

Dennis Porter, CHMM, the operations and utility program Dennis Porter manager for the Environmental Division has been appointed as a vice president of the company. Dennis has over 25 years of experience. During his years at the firm he has managed

numerous Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, Remedial Investigations, Feasibility Studies, industrial hygiene studies, project monitoring and asbestos sampling surveys.

He also has experience with hazardous material identification, characterization, and disposal, asbestos abatement, and demolition. Dennis has an extensive understanding of Brownfield Redevelopment and has completed numerous Site Redevelopment Projects under the NYSDEC’s Brownfield Cleanup Program. Most recently, Dennis has been focusing primarily on Iberdrola USA projects.

Ms. Chelsea Bajek, EIT

Ms. Sara Otero

Ms. Chelsea Bajek, EIT joins the civil engineering division of the firm as a civil engineer. She has 4 years of experience with a focus on water supply, treatment, and distribution and wastewater collection and treatment.

Ms. Sara Otero joins the civil engineering division of the firm as a gas designer. Sara’s background includes design and calculations of drainage systems in combined cycle plants. q

MRB Group Hires Team Leader and Project Manager The Management Team at MRB Group is proud to announce the recent addition of Stuart Bailey, who will serve as a Team Leader and Project Manager.

MRB Group specializes in engineering and architecture, with a team of more than 50 professionals and support staff.

They provide local governments, public works departments, as well as water Stuart Bailey and wastewater operations with expert engineering and trusted counsel, in order to better serve community residents. MRB Group’s goal is to strengthen local governments with enhanced operational efficiencies that minimize costs.

MRB Group President Ryan T. Colvin, P.E., said, “Stuart’s more than 25 years of experience in design and construction phase services will be an excellent addition to our already outstanding project management team, further enhancing the expertise we professional firms employee news

provide our client communities.”

Colvin referenced Bailey’s expertise in programming, design, and management of construction projects. Bailey has also presented and published on a variety of topics including “Challenges for Sustainable Development,” “Energy Efficiency in Buildings,” and “Effective Methods of Design” to name a few.

Bailey graduated from the University of Brighton with his bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronic engineering. As a committed and highly proficient professional in project management, his profile includes extensive experience working internationally in Russia, Ireland, United Kingdom and Malaysia. Bailey will assist in managing large multi-disciplined projects and as a client liaison.

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The engineering societies are encouraged to submit their meeting notices for publication in this section. The deadline for submitting copy is the 10th of the month prior to the month of publication. Please email to: admin@roceng.org. The meetings offering PDHs are highlighted in blue. Details about the meeting and affiliate (if in this issue) are on the corresponding page listed next to the affiliate name.

Tuesday, June 7

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) IEEE Excom Meeting

Wednesday, June 15

Illuminating Engineering Society (IES)

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Place: Hibachi Sushi Buffet Restaurant, OfficeMax South Town Plaza, 3333 West Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY (https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/37450) Time: 12:00 to 1:00 pm Comment: Any IEEE member is invited to attend. Lunch is only $5 for IEEE members and $3 for student members. No reservations are needed, just show up.

Thursday, June 9

American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE)

2016 ASPE Annual Golf Outing

Place: Victor Hills Golf Club, 1450 Brace Road, Victor Time: Tee off at 10:00 am. Buffet dinner about 3:30 pm.

Cost: $75 per person (includes lunch, 18 holes of golf, dinner, and awards), $50 for lunch and golf, $30 for cocktail hour and dinner only.

Comments: Golf attire required (shirt with collar, no tank tops).

4-person scramble.

Reservations: To Jennifer Wengender, Clark Patterson Lee, 585454-7600. If not already signed up, contact Jennifer immediately).

Saturday, June 11

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, And Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) ASHRAE Trap/Skeet Outing

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Place: Rochester Brooks, 962 Honeoye Falls #6 Road, Rush, NY Time: 10:00 am Reservations: Matt Devlin, mdevlin@bergmannpc.com or 585-232-5137 x820.

Cost: $30 per shooter (all proceeds benefit ASHRAE Research).

Comments: Need not be an ASHRAE member. Friends and family members are welcome. Shooters need to provide their own gun and ammo.

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Reservations: Reservations to Diane Montrois at 585-254-8010 or diane@illuminFx.com before June 8th. Questions about the tournament can be directed to John Garbinski at jgarbinski@qlsny.com.

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Place: Terry Hills Country Club, 5122 Clinton Street Road, Batavia Time: Registration beginning at 11:30 am; Lunch at 11:30 am in the Halfway House, Shotgun Start at 12:45, Keg beer starting one hour before dinner, Dinner at 6:00pm.

Cost: $100 per person (includes lunch, golf with cart, keg beer, dinner). $35 per person for dinner only. $150 Hole Sponsorships available.

Reservations: Reservations by Wed., June 8th to Mike Barrett, 716-688-0766 or mbarrett@wendelcompanies.com. A registration form is also on page 37 of this issue of the Rochester Engineer.

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International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Beyond MBSE

Tuesday, June 21

Independent Entrepreneurs Council (IEC)

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Speaker: Dr. David Long, Founder and President, Vitech Corporation, former President of INCOSE (Jan. 2014 Jan.2016) Place: 7 hosts available. See page 29 for details or go to the website at www.incose/org/flc Time: Meetings begins at 6:00 pm and ends approximately 7:30 pm.

If you need details or have any concerns contacting a host email Kevin Devaney at kdevaney@srcinc.com.

Friday, June 17

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association (GVLSA) June Sporting Clays

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Place: Batavia Rod & Gun Club, 1059 West Bethany Road, West Bethany, NY Registration: 2:30 to 3:30 pm; Shooting 4:00 to 6:00 pm.

Dinner to follow at Center Street Smoke House in Batavia.

Details at www.gvlsa.com.

Tuesday, June 21

Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE)

Annual Nick Dargento Memorial Scholarship Golf Outing

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Place: Victor Hills Golf Club, South Course, 1450 Brace Road, Victor Time: Registration starts at 9:00 am. Scramble Format/Shotgun start at 10:00 am. Buffet dinner at 4:00 pm Comments: Collared shirts required (no t-shirts, tank tops, cutoffs, or jeans).

Cost: $60 for 18 Holes of Golf & Lunch, $85 for Golf and Dinner, $35 for Dinner only.

Registration: Registration and prepayment is required by June 17th to Tom Acquilino, c/o Trane Supply, Suite 300A, 460 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY 14611. Make checks payable to AFE. Questions? Call Dan Friday at 585-341-3121.

The RES website (www.roceng.org) has a calendar of events for this month's meetings and meetings that are received or updated after the print deadline. Please refer to the website for updated information. If you wish to be listed on the calendar

and Applications

Speaker: Dr. David Glocker, Isoflux, Inc. Location: SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center, 5450 Campus Drive, Canandaigua Time: Registration at 7:30 am; Presentation from 8:00 to 9:00~9:30 am Registration required: There is NO charge for this presentation.

Reservations are required by COB, June 17th. Make reservations via The Rivers Organization, 585-586-6906 or ESTG@Riversorg.com.

Monday, July 11

Electrical Association (EA) 36th Annual Invitational Golf Outing

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Place: LeRoy Country Club, 7759 East Main Street, LeRoy Time: Shotgun start at 10:00 am at the Club House (registration opens at 9:00 am).

Registration: $90 for EAWNY Members by June 15 ($110 after 6/15), Nonmembers $120 by June 15 ($140 after 6/15). Dinner only $25 per person. Additional details on the website at www.eawny.com or email Karen at Karen@eawny.com (585-382-9545).

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International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

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Annual Picnic Place: Letchwork Park.

Website at www.incose/org/flc.

Thursday - Saturday, August 18 - 20

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, And Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) p 31 2016 Region I Chapter Regional Conference, Rochester Place: Hyatt Regency, Rochester Registration: Conference registration and hotel reservations can be made at: www.ashrae2016crc.com.

Registration fees: A detailed list is on page 31 of this issue of the Rochester Engineer.

Sponsorships requested. Go to www.rochester.ashraechapters.org for a detailed listing of the benefits of being a sponsor.

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MRB Group Nominates the City of Auburn for NY Conference of Mayors Local Government Award MRB Group has nominated the City of Auburn for the New York Conference of Mayors (NYCOM) 29th Annual Local Government Achievement Award, on behalf of the City’s “Mapping the Way to Increased Efficiency” project.

were also able to attach a picture to the full digital image showing all of the hydrants in need of further repair. These features were also able to be viewed in real-time by the City Water and Engineering Departments.

The NYCOM award is given to a community that has undertaken a significant and innovative project. The project is based on improvements to the quality of life in the community, demonstration of shared services, as well as, increased efficiency in government procedures. MRB Group felt the City of Auburn not only met, but exceeded the award qualifications with their GIS Mapping project designed to locate, track and maintain water lines and hydrants.

The GIS hydrant inspection process was so successful because it reduced both the time and effort required in navigating every fire hydrant, decreased duplicate inspections, as well as, eliminating the transcribing of 1,200 paper inspection forms. In just the one annual inspection cycle, the City saw savings of approximately 80-100 personnel hours.

The City of Auburn, located in Cayuga County, maintains a water distribution system comprised of over 125 miles of water lines and approximately 1,200 fire hydrants in need of annual maintenance, inspection and flushing. MRB Group worked with City Engineer Mark Odrzywolski to develop a geographic information system (GIS) mapping program whose information and data collection could be utilized electronically across City Departments.

The process began by taking utility record maps and making them digitally accessible to City employees in the field through a smartphone application (app). The GIS mapping was able to detail streets, as well as water and sewer lines in real-time. This process allows for quick location of a valve or hydrant without having to carry or consult paper maps and documentation.

Building on the City of Auburn’s GIS success, and in partnership with Fire Chief Jeff Dygert, MRB Group assisted in transitioning the Fire Department’s hydrant inspection and flushing paper forms into digital versions. This set-up allowed multiple crews to enter information into the database at the same time, as well as show each fire hydrant point on the map, which is designed to change color from red to green indicating the inspection and flushing process status.

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The increased efficiencies provided by the partnership between MRB Group and the City of Auburn directly impacted taxpayers.

It provided a reduction in operations and service costs, improved system maintenance and record-keeping, which contributed to the City’s success in maintaining a Class 2 ISO rating, effectively reducing the costs of homeowner’s insurance for residents.

MRB Group looks forward to the continued partnership with the City of Auburn as they continue incorporating mobile GIS projects for water valve exercising, tracking water line leaks, street condition inspections, and a mobile Fire Department pre-planning app for individualized emergency response protocols for major City buildings.

MRB Group works with more than 100 municipalities across the State of New York, and is approaching 90 years of continuous service to local governments. The firm’s 50member team assists municipal communities, guiding projects to ensure not only regulatory compliance, but more importantly, that the long-term interests of the residents are protected.

According to MRB Group President Ryan Colvin, “We provide services to municipalities specifically designed to enhance operational efficiencies and minimize costs. The City of Auburn’s GIS mapping results are a perfect example of how this is accomplished.” Colvin continued, “The City of Auburn was a great candidate for the NYCOM award and we wish them the best of luck. MRB Group is proud to partner with innovative communities to enhance their ability to maximize the beneficial impacts of GIS and other implement-able initiatives.” q

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SWBR Architects and St. John’s Accept Environments for Aging Design Showcase Award of Merit for Brickstone Project Representatives from SWBR Architects and St. John’s received the Award of Merit at the Environments for Aging Design Showcase in Austin, Texas, earlier this month. The award recognizes Brickstone by St. John’s as a unique and innovative project that is distinctly different from traditional senior living communities.

Nearly 50 projects were submitted in this year’s showcase, an annual review of projects in senior-care settings, from conceptual designs to newly completed buildings. The jury panel included architects, interior designers, providers and consultants.

The collaboration between St. John’s and SWBR Architects—two leaders in their respective industries in the Rochester region—was designed to reinvent the concept of senior living by embracing new urbanism. SWBR Architects served as architect of record for the Brickstone project. q

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Representatives from SWBR Architects and St. John’s pose after receiving the Award of Merit at the Environments for Aging Design Showcase in Austin, Texas on Monday, April 11, 2016. Pictured left to right are Jodi Mason, Joanne Braeunle, Thomas R. Gears, Duncan Walker and Paul Bartlett.

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Campus News Amlan Ganguly receives NSF CAREER Award for improving data center energy efficiencies Research into use of new wireless interconnection networks could improve data communication at the both processor level as well as server-to-server efficiencies

Amlan Ganguly, a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, recently received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award expected to total $596,512 over five years for “Energy-efficient data center with wireless interconnection networks.” The five-year grant award is being used toward further exploring the design of energy efficient data centers utilizing a communication infrastructure with wireless interconnections.

this research is to scale the technology for direct chip-to-chip communication within a server and then between server-toserver within a data center. Wireless interconnects are a radiofrequency alternative to metal, usually copper, interconnects within electronic devices.

“It is a high gain, but it is also a high risk project in the sense that the challenges are huge, because we are talking about interconnecting potentially tens to hundreds of servers with the same frequency which means that there is a lot of cross talk, a lot of interference. We have to have an intelligent way of managing that communication,” he explained. His focus will be on using his individual chip framework within a much larger environment with the intent to achieve the same performance but at a much lower power point.

This new process projects 10 times the energy savings of current usage, Ganguly said. Datacenters are warehouse-scale computers comprising of thousands of individual servers used by organizations to store, manage and process data.

The National Resource Defense Council states Part of the NSF career award focus is not only on supporting current, in its 2013 survey that high result work being done by young professors, it is focused on how combined U.S. data faculty include undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students in the centers consume nearly 91 research and how the information is integrated into classwork. Ganguly billion kilowatt hours of is shown with members of his student-research team. energy. This is estimated Photo by M. Cometa to increase to more than Ganguly will take a 140 billion kilowatt hours step-by-step approach annually by 2020. Ganguly’s work using wireless frequencies, starting with scaling up on-chip wireless communication to known as millimeter wave bands, could potentially help the an intra-server level—similar to that found inside a large, computing infrastructure become greener by reducing the high performance computer with multiple processors. He energy footprint of a data center by orders of magnitude. will continue with modeling interconnects across server “We want to revolutionize that mechanism of communication environments. within servers with wireless interconnects. It is important to reduce that energy footprint of computing in the data center “In another sense, sustainability can mean that computers last because it is so high,” said Ganguly, an assistant professor longer, are more reliable, more robust,” he said. “That is tied to of computer engineering in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of this research in a slightly different way because what happens Engineering. “The crux of the approach is to replace the legacy when a lot of power and energy is being consumed, computers internet-type of connections with the novel wireless technology heat up, and the heat affects the performance, and ultimately which we project to be significantly more power efficient than the lifetime of computers. By reducing power consumption, you the current state-of-the-art.” prolong the life of a computer.” q Ganguly has a background in developing wireless interconnects within a single chip, or integrated circuit. His approach with 24 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

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Campus News Faculty-researcher explores new brain-inspired computing architectures to increase processing power Research focuses on improvements toward designing intelligent systems with memristors for anomaly detection and prediction

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esearchers developing next-generation computer systems at Rochester Institute of Technology are designing brain-inspired computer architectures using memristors that will have increased processing capabilities, robustness and be more energy efficient.

Dhireesha Kudithipudi, a faculty-researcher in RIT’s Kate Gleason College of Engineering, received a grant award from the Department of the Air Force Research Laboratory, expected to total $605,639 over four years, to further develop the computer architecture for the project, “Reservoir computing and benchmarking of neuromorphic systems for size/weight/ power constrained environments.”

Kudithipudi’s research would be twofold: to develop architectural capabilities that accelerate processing of natural tasks, and to benchmark the capacity needed for various braininspired systems based on the researcher’s assessment of energy, size and weight of computing environments.

Energy usage is a critical target for next-generation computing systems, and improved efficiency through neuromorphic systems could advance autonomous processing, critical for military or intelligence applications such as target identification or any anomaly detection. Data from the benchmarking aspect of the research could be used by computer scientists to strategically build systems based on design knobs for specific tasks.

“Applications are really critical in this paradigm,” said Kudithipudi, an associate professor of computer engineering and an expert in neuromorphic systems, defined as an interdisciplinary approach to developing computing infrastructure inspired by how the human brain performs its complex functions.

“Today, conventional systems are powerful at extreme levels of number-crunching for scientific data. However, they are not efficient at understanding ill-posed problems or performing spatio-temporal processing on noisy inputs,” she explained.

“Our approach is to design these new classes of computing systems, known as neuromemristive systems, which are very powerful at intelligent processing.”

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memory in one substrate.

Conventional machine learning algorithms are very good at some tasks, but focus primarily on maximizing accuracy. Using neuromorphic computing, Kudithipudi said scientists would be able to maximize accuracy along with the overall system footprint. The critical part of her work in this area is not just to build systems that are better at prediction, but to build a system that is energy efficient and compact.

“Part of our effort is to benchmark different cognitive tasks that can be performed in neuromorphic systems, not necessarily for memristors, but using general purpose systems that we have,” she said. “If somebody wants to apply these systems for prediction, they’d be able to say, ‘I can use this algorithm on this specific piece of hardware, and this is the power budget I have.’”

Reservoir computing is a type of recurrent artificial neural network with a simple training algorithm. Neuromorphic computing could improve multi-modal signal processing defined as the ability to acquire, manage and assess data efficiently from multiple input streams, which is currently not feasible with traditional computing systems. One of the characteristics of brain-inspired computing, or neuromorphic computing systems, is they are unaffected by noise—variations in data inputs within the system.

“This is the right time for this kind of research. The technology is there, the momentum is there because of the unsurmountable data – a lot of basic research has been established since the 1800s, so this is an opportune time to do research in this field to make an impact in building large scale intelligent systems, ” she said.

Her team has baseline architectures and circuits developed, and an understanding of which types of system integration are efficient. The group has researched use of digital and mixedsignal approaches, all the building blocks for the system they are looking to improve.

“There are a lot of parallel efforts going on in this area where people are trying to actually mimic the brain, but we are not trying to do that,” Kudithipudi said. “Our approach is to take inspiration from the human brain and build better systems from there.” q campus news

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Society for Imaging Science and Technology Website: http://rochesterengineeringsociety.wildapricot.org/ISandT

After a season of great speakers, we are now working on next year’s exciting programs. If you have any ideas for topics or speakers, please let us know at RochesterIST@gmail.com.

This coming August’s issue will have the schedule for our 2015-2016 season.

We are also shopping for different venues, and we welcome those ideas as well. Enjoy your summer!

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RIT’s SMASH Experience for Girls wins STEM program award Finger Lakes STEM Hub honors SMASH program director Kara Maki

The Rochester Institute of Technology’s Summer Math Applications in Science with Hands-on Experience for Girls has been recognized by the Finger Lakes STEM Hub as an exemplary K-12 program in science, technology, engineering and math.

Kara Maki, director of SMASH and assistant professor in RIT’s School of Mathematical Sciences, was honored for her efforts at the STEM Hub Recognition Awards Luncheon on May 13 at St. John Fisher College.

“This award is an enormous compliment from inspiring educators in our community,” Maki said. “SMASH is about building confidence in math and science.

It’s about participants starting to see the relevance of mathematics in everyday life.

With application-driven mathematics, it is often not about getting the answer right the first time, but instead trying different and creative ways until you learn something new.”

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Department of Education highlighting the nation’s drop in math and science rankings.

Response from students, parents and corporate sponsors has made the program an annual event.

The SMASH Experience for Girls gives entering eighth graders a five-day focus on mathematical sciences on the RIT campus. The curriculum emphasizes handson activities that connect math skills to real-world problems and develops smallgroup communication skills. The SMASH experience will be held this year from July 18-22.

Support for the program comes, in part, from RIT’s College of Science Dean Sophia Maggelakis, RIT’s Women in Science program and the Center for Advancing STEM Teaching, Learning & Evaluation, or CASTLE, both housed in the College of Science.

Past corporate sponsors have included Time Warner Cable, Corning Incorporated Foundation, Paychex, Gloucester Engineering and Pearl Technologies. The

pilot was supported by funding from the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics, through its partnership with the Moody’s Foundation. In addition, RIT alumni have provided need-based scholarships to SMASH. “SMASH is a model for getting students excited about STEM education and especially about mathematics,” said Maggelakis, a member of the Finger Lakes STEM Hub and founder of RIT’s Women in Science. “Kara designed the program to illustrate science and mathematics concepts in ways that are meaningful to young girls by helping them to understand how science and mathematics work together to solve complex and important problems of our society and by providing mentorship and encouragement in the process.”

Maggelakis is this year’s recipient of RIT’s Edwina Award for her contributions in support of gender diversity and inclusiveness.

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Honorable Civil Engineers: It was a good year for the ASCE Rochester Section. Our section was involved in over twenty activities and with the help of ASCE National we were politically active in Washington, DC and in Albany, NY. I personally believe this activity was instrumental and assisted in the passage of the DRIVE ACT by the Federal Government and the recent record state funding for civil engineering works by the NYS Government. As our National President says: “… if we do not participate in the public policy process, competing voices will dominate the debate.”

As your Section President, I participated in the ASCE National Convention in NYC last October (this was the best conference I ever attended), the ASCE Presidents and Governors Forum last September in Reston, and at the Multiple Region Leadership Conference in Miami, last January (tough assignment as it was 8 degrees at home and 80 degrees in Miami). These out of town ASCE events were all fantastic and I believe they really improve what our section officers can provide our members. And the cost of attendance is mostly covered by ASCE! 28 | The ROCHESTER ENGINEER JUNE 2016

This year we transitioned some committee chairs after many years of committed service. Bill Van Alst provided exemplary leadership with our Interactive Exhibit for kids but he has relinquished this effort to Ed Farrell. Rick Bennett has chaired the scholarship committee but he has passed the torch onto Josh Rodems. Tom Frys chaired the awards committee and he has handed off the baton to Jim Kaniecki. Many thanks to Bill, Rick and Tom for their past efforts and to Ed, Josh and Jim for stepping up.

We also reinvigorated our Younger Members with fresh young minds: the new Chair is Drew Schwingel. Drew, Ed and Hannah Rockwell are on the prowl for additional members to help them with all their great activities.

EOY this year was Professor Harry Cooke, RIT. Normally we have the EOY Banquet in December – this year we had to wait for Harry to get back from sabbatical in January but it was well worth the wait.

Acknowledgement is also due our members that find the interesting speakers that provide PDH presentations for the RES Symposium. They are: Carl Eller, Rick Bennet, Jim Baker and Erin McCormick. We are hopeful for fresh new presentations next year and with the secured funding from government, this should be a certainty. We cannot forget to thank our Golf Chair Josh Rodems. There was a time when our tourney was enormous, Josh is working hard to grow it back to be like the old days.

We at ASCE are committed to continuing to enhance collaboration with our sister groups at NYSATE, ABCD WNY, ASHE, APWA, et al. – after all there is so much overlap – and to improve meeting attendance and content.

Allow me to conclude by saying it has been an honor to serve as your President for 2015-2016 and that I am very appreciative for all the efforts of our board: Erin, Clem, Chris, Tom, Ergin, Josh, Drazen, Andy, Kevin, Drew, Ed, and Marcus.

Please enjoy the summer!

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International Council on Systems Engineering www.incose/org/flc

Finger Lakes Chapter of INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON SYSTEMS ENGINEERING www.incose.org/flc

Upcoming Chapter Meeting Events • Thursday, June 16, 2016: June Chapter Meeting  David Long, Founder and President, Vitech Corporation, Former President of INCOSE (January 2014 - January 2016)

Beyond MBSE

David Long will talk about Model-based Systems Engineering, including steps you can take to improve the journey to MBSE at your organization, and classic errors to avoid. He will also talk about plotting the journey beyond MBSE, and the future of systems engineering. He also has agreed to discuss his recent experience as the President of INCOSE, and share his ideas for building a strong INCOSE Chapter.

(Please RSVP with your local host – refer to the list below)

• Sunday, August 14, 2016: Annual Picnic 

The annual picnic will be held at Letchworth Park.

• Meetings begin at 6:00 and run to approximately 7:30 pm

 Please RSVP with your local host - a list of local hosts and their contact information is below; if there are any issues contacting one of them, or there are any other questions or concerns, please contact Kevin Devaney at kdevaney@srcinc.com.

1. Ithaca, NY 2. Syracuse University 3. Xerox 4. Rome, NY 5. North Syracuse, NY 6. Lockheed Martin MST 7. Rochester, NY

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Wesley Hewett at wahewett@gmail.com, Cornell University, Rhodes Hall Dr. Young Moon at ybmoon@syr.edu, 220 Link Hall Charles Rizzolo at charles.rizzolo@xerox.com Bruce Rubin at bruceieeerubin@yahoo.com Kevin Devaney at devaney@srcinc.com, SRC, 6225 Running Ridge Road, 13212 Shirley Kupst at shirley.kupst@lmco.com, Owego, NY Rick Zinni at rzinni@gmail.com, Location TBD

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Rochester Chapter

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers Rochester ASHRAE website: www.rochester.ashraechapters.org

JUNE NEWSLETTER

President's Message As I write my final president’s message, the ASHRAE calendar year is almost complete. Thank you to all that attended our annual ASHRAE picnic/ golf tournament last month. It was a great success, namely because of the tremendous support from our sponsors, as well as the many hours that both Jim Browe and Kacie Hoffman put into pulling this event together. They do an awesome job, thank you Jim & Kacie! At the picnic, the 2016-2017 Rochester Chapter Officers and Board of Governors were announced: Chapter Officers President President-elect Treasurer Secretary

Jeff Close William Clark Paul Kenna Tom Streber

Board of Governors BOG 3rd year Branden Farnsworth-Weinblatt BOG 3rd year Tim Duprey BOG 2nd year Steve Dear BOG 2nd year Sam Scorsone BOG 1st year George Herman BOG 1st year Mike Benedict On Saturday, June 11th we will have a Trap/Skeet Outing at Rochester Brooks.

Thank you to Matt Devlin for putting this event together. It will be a lot of fun!

August 18-20 we are honored to host the ASHRAE Region I Chapter Regional Conference (CRC). Our Chapter is currently seeking sponsorships to defray the costs associated with the CRC in an effort to reduce the costs for attendees of this event. If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Jim Browe (jbrowe@rfpeck.com). Please see the next page that highlights in more detail the CRC. Come and enjoy Making Connections!

2016 ASHRAE Golf Tournament & Picnic

As my term as President comes to an end I would like to welcome our incoming President, Jeff Close. Jeff did a fantastic job with orchestrating our programs this year, and I know he will do an incredible job serving as our President. In addition I want to thank the team of 25 volunteers that helped to make our Chapter run this year. This includes Chapter Officers, Board of Governors, and many behind the scenes Committees. Without your help, our Chapter could not function. Thank you!!! Enjoy your summer, spend time with your family, and we’ll see you back in September for our Clambake!

Continue to check out our website at www.rochester. ashraechapters.org for our officer list and contact information, current newsletter, CRC information and more! Or if Facebook is your preferred method of communication take a moment to ‘like’ us at www. facebook.com/#!/ashraerochester.

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Genesee Valley Branch

American Public Works Association Website: NewYork.APWA.net Geoffrey Benway, PE, Genesee Valley Branch President Genesee Valley Branch Serving Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Orleans and Wayne County

Education Matters!

APWA Exposition

I recently attended the Engineering Symposium in Rochester and it was an outstanding event. My thanks go out to committee who put together a full day of interesting sessions for all disciplines and to Lynne Irwin, the RES Administrative Director who manages a number of tasks behind the scenes which makes this event go smoothly. It is a unique experience to attend training with a diverse group of over 400 professional engineers. What was especially noteworthy was the number of attendees from outside the Rochester area.

Engineers from all over NY State attended the event.

The venue switched to the Hyatt Hotel this year and thanks go out to the staff that was very accommodating.

This is another outstanding event that shows that our region is progressive and forward thinking!

APWA is retooling their annual exhibition of equipment, services, and educational opportunities. The annual congress is now branded as the PWX. I have attended several national Congresses and I have found it a great opportunity to get education on projects and skills that supports my job. Being able to network with similar public works professionals throughout the USA, Canada, and our international comrades is a priceless benefit. The exhibition floor is worth the price of admission alone! The exhibition area has equipment, services, products, and other needs for the public works industry. The event is billed as the Best Show in Public Works and it is! This year the PWX is in Minneapolis from August 28 – 31. Registration is now open! I encourage our membership to consider attending this event with me. In addition to the training, I will be there to share the receipt of a National Project of the Year Award to the RTS Transit Center!

NY Chapter The NY Chapter has begun planning for the 2017 NY Conference that will be in Rochester next April.

Volunteers are needed to provide assistance in the planning and development of a first class educational program. If interested, please contact me or the NY Chapter Administrator, Cindy Chandler at nys.apwa@gmail.com. The Genesee Valley Branch is the largest Branch in the New York Chapter and we hope to showcase the collective skills and charms of Monroe County and our neighboring counties.

Summer Break The Rochester Engineer magazine takes a break for the summer. However, the Genesee Valley Branch will continue to schedule educational and networking events.

We will have a Friday night event at Frontier Field with a pre-game Fellowship Hour! Check our website for more details and events. I hope everyone has a great summer!

The American Public Works Association (www.apwa.net) is a not-for-profit, international organization of more than 29,000 members involved in the field of public works. APWA serves its members by promoting professional excellence and public awareness through education, advocacy and the exchange of knowledge. APWA is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, has an office in Washington, D.C. and 63 chapters throughout North America.

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Rochester NY Chapter

Independent Entrepreneurs Council

"The Junction of Technology, Manufacturing & Business Development" In Conjunction with the "Empire State Technology Group" Chairman/Moderator Ralph Kraft R. Kraft, Inc 585-621-6946 Program Director Robert Lewis AdviCoach 585-385-2087 Treasurer Richard Blazey Business Metamorphosis LLC 585-520-3935 Web Master Richard Blazey Business Metamorphosis LLC 585-520-3935 Event Planner Rick Rivers The Rivers Organization 585-586-6906 Community Outreach: Dave Bassett Bassett IP Strategies 585-739-9726 Lee Drake OS Cubed 585-765-2444 Dennis Roote CDE Engineering & Environmental PLCC 585-330-6986

Entrepreneurs Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed Monthly Breakfast Series Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Location: SUNY Polytechnic Institute, Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering's Smart System Technology & Commercialization Center (STC), 5450 Campus Drive, Canandaigua, NY 14424 Time: Registration 7:30 to 8:00 am; Presentation 8:00 to 9:00~9:30 am Registration Required: There is NO charge for this presentation. Reservations are required by Friday Close of Business, June 17, 2016. Make reservations via The Rivers Organization at 585-586-6906 or ESTG@Riversorg.com.

Topic: "Inverted Cylindrical Magnetron Sputtering: Technology and Applications Speaker: Dr. David Glocker of Isoflux, Inc., a manufacturer of inverted cylindrical magnetron cathodes. Dr. Glocker has over thirty years of thin film coating experience and is an inventor or co-inventor on 32 US patents and the author of numerous published papers.

Abstract: Inverted cylindrical magnetron (ICM) cathodes sputter material off of the inside surfaces of cylindrical targets. This makes them ideal for coating wires, fibers and substrates having complex three-dimensional shapes. A wide variety of magnetic field configurations are possible that can be used to achieve specific process goals such as excellent coating thickness uniformity, efficient utilization of expensive materials and high plasma densities. This talk will discuss the technical aspects of these sources and then focus on several applications. For example, because of their ability to achieve relatively conformal coverage of 3-D shapes, ICM cathodes are used by at least two medical device manufacturers to deposit coatings on pacemaker electrodes. In another medical application, a porous nanocolumnar Ta coating with excellent flexibility has been developed to render implants such as stents visible in X-Rays. Finally, recent work using ICM cathodes in an off-axis mode has demonstrated their ability to deposit optical coatings with excellent properties on highly curved surfaces.

Upcoming Events Sept. 20th

Speaker Terry Rogelstad

Subject Using a Quadruple Mass Spectrometer

Oct. 18th

Louis McKeage How New York State Trade Adjustment Assistance Teresa Stockton Center (NY TASC) Can Help Keep Your Company Competitive.

Strategies For Small Business Conference When: Wendesday, October 26, 2016 Where: Radisson Hotel Rochester Airport – 175 Jefferson Rd – Henrietta NY 14623 Time: 7:30 AM – 4:30 PM To Register: visit www.RPCNconference.com Co-sponsored by Independent Entreprenuers Council iec news

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June Newsletter, 2016 Executive Committee Chair: Greg Gdowski greg.gdowski@gmail.com Vice Chair: Dave Krispinsky dgkite@rit.edu Treasurer: Bill Fowlkes william.fowlkes@kodak.com Secretary: Ray Ptucha rwpeec@rit.edu Awards: Jean Kendrick jkendrick388@frontiernet.net Communications: Greg Gdowski greg.gdowski@gmail.com Newsletter: Anh Karam anh.karam@rit.edu PACE: Alex Loui a.louie@ieee.org Univ. of Rochester Chapter: Wendi Heinzelman wheinzel@ece.rochester.edu RIT Chapter: Gill Tsouri grteee@rit.edu Chapters,Council,&Groups COMMSOC/AES: Nirmala Shenoy nxsvks@rit.edu CS, CIS: Bo Yuan bo.yuan@rit.edu EDS, CSS: Sean Rommel slremc@rit.edu

http://rochester.ieee.org

Message from the Chair

The summer is here! April was a busy month for the Rochester IEEE Section. We hosted the Joint Chapters Meeting on April 19th which brought together > 80 members and friends. Many thanks to those that were instrumental in setting up the meeting including: Dave Krispinsky, Ray Ptucha, Bill Fowlkes, Jean Kendrick, Wendi Heinzelman, Bo Yuan, Cristian Linte, Emmett Ientilucci, Bruce Smith, Nate Cahill, and Paul Lee. I would also like to thank all of the terrific speakers we had at the meeting including: Barry Silverstein, Aaron Gerace, Michele Rossi, David Holmes, Lee Loomis, Jon Kriegel, Vladimir Mitin, Linwei Wang, Jean Kendrick, Parsian Mohseni, George Blasiak, and Joe Manico. Three PDH credits were offered for three of the presentations! Finally, congratulations to RIT Graduate Student Member Shagan Sah who won the student poster contest with his work entitled: “A Graph Theoretic Approach to Deep Learning.”

On April 21st, the Rochester Section sponsored the E3 Engineering and Technology Fair. This is a fair that is targeted towards increasing interest in engineering and technology to middle school students. The Rochester Section takes great pride in sponsoring the event and regularly provides a booth for students to visit. A special thanks goes to Joe DeVita and Alex Loui this year for all of their efforts in helping to make our contribution a success!

In addition, the Rochester Section sponsored a track within the 2016 Engineering Symposium on April 26th. Dave Krispinsky ran the IEEE-sponsored track. Six PDH credits were offered for the following six presentations: Robert Moses, “Niagara Power Project, Operation - Upgrades – Issues” Scott Edwards, “Building Automation Systems in 2016” Taylor Rightmire, “Understanding Tunable White Light” Yossi Nygate, “Software Defined Networks The Future Telecommunications” Ram Dhurjaty, “Standards in Medical Devices – Defibrillators & ECG’s” Martin Cox, “Introduction to the Technical and Safety Aspects of Cable Bus” That’s all for now! I hope to see you at a future IEEE meeting! All my best.

EMBS: Cristian Linte christian.linte@ieee.org GRSS: Emmett Ientilucci emmett@cis.rit.edu LIFE: Mark Schrader m.schrader@ieee.org APS, MTTS: Gregory Pettis gpettis@harris.com Photonics: Bruce Smith bwsemc@rit.edu PES, IAS: Jean Kendrick jkendrick388@frontiernet.net SPS: Nathan Cahill ndcsma@rit.edu

26th edition of the Annual RES E3 Engineering and Technology Fair IEEE Fellow Alex Loui provided the following report on the fair which took place on Thursday April 21st at R.I.T.’s Clark Gymnasium. This year, the IEEE Rochester Section’s exhibit dealt with product safety and root cause analysis. The presentation featured a popular consumer product that is marketed as Hoverboards, but more formerly known as a Self-Balancing Scooters. Topics covered theory of operation, teardown of major components, construction issues and the newly released UL 2272 certification. IEEE Senior Member, Joseph DeVita engaged the students in the application of the “5 Whys” method of root cause analysis by persistently unpeeling the symptom layers of Hoverboard fire incidents. The students were encouraged to use the technique to expand their scientific method and (playfully) enrich their social interactions with adults, family and friends.”

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Greg Gdowski, Barry Silverstein (Keynote speaker) and David Krispinsky.

STEMS Speakers: Joe Manico and George Blasiak, with Paul Lee.

Life Group Speaker: John Kriegel with Greg Gdowski.

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STRATUS 2016 Workshop: Systems and Technologies for Remote Sensing Applications Through Unmanned Aerial Systems Overview The emergence of low-cost and easy-to-use Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, has lead to an explosion of their use for numerous applications. In particular, these new platforms have enabled new imaging and earth remote sensing technologies and applications previously unavailable due to the high cost of manned aircraft or satellites. This workshop will bring together academics, industry representatives, and domain specialists to share perspectives on this rapidly evolving topic.

Topics (UAS-Related) • 3D and Multi-view Imaging • Imaging Systems

• Analysis Techniques • Platforms

• Applications • Sensors

• Technologies

Where / When Date: October 28, 2016 Time: 8:00am - 5:00pm Location: Louise Slaughter Hall , RIT, Rochester, NY Full 4-page paper or abstract submission opens: Monday, September 12, 2016 http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/rochester/grss/STRATUS2016/

Rochester Section Excom meeting. Tuesday, June 7 12:00-1:00PM Location: Hibachi Sushi Buffet, OfficeMax South Town Plaza, 3333 W Henrietta Rd, Rochester, NY If you are looking for a cheap lunch ($5 for members and $3 for students), join us for the next monthly Rochester Section IEEE Executive Committee meeting. All current and prospective IEEE members may attend!

Please join us to learn more about the Society and how you may contribute. https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/37450

Membership news

In the last few months our membership has increased significantly! We have added 15 Members and 10 additional Graduate Student Members since March! IEEE sets recruitment goals for us each year, and thus far we are at 91% of our goal! We are currently ranked 2nd amongst all sections in R1 in meeting our recruitment goals!

The Rochester Section welcomes the following new members: Vijay Akella, Vipin Cholleti, Sean Evans, Gui Gui, Christoper Neusatz, Jennifer Schneider, and Martin Zand. ieee news

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President: ALAN SMITH, P.E. IBC Engineering, P.C. 3445 Winton Place, Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Technical: DAVE JERECKOS IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place, Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Vice President Legislative: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E., CPD Clark Patterson Lee 205 St Paul Blvd.

Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Vice President Membership: DOUG MEIER Twin”D” Associates 1577 Ridge Road West Suite 116B Rochester, NY 14615 585-581-2170 Treasurer: TERRY BROWN, CPD M/E Engineering, PC 150 North Chestnut Street Rochester, NY 14604 585-288-5590 Administrative Secretary: ADAM KRAMER IBC Engineering, PC 3445 Winton Place, Suite 219 Rochester, NY 14623 585-292-1590 Education Chairman: JENNIFER WENGENDER, P.E., CPD Clark Patterson Lee 205 St Paul Blvd Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7600 Newsletter Editor: DAVID MYERS LaBella Associates, PC 300 State Street, Suite 201 Rochester, NY 14614 585-454-6110

President's Message The golf committee is still accepting hole sponsors ($100) and prize sponsors ($200) to support the outing. Please contact Jennifer Wengender at Clark Patterson Lee if you are interested in being a sponsor.

Registration for the 2016 ASPE Convention & Expo is available on ASPE’s website (www.aspe.org). The Convention will be held in Phoenix, AZ from October 28th through November 2nd. The Expo will be held on October 31st and November 1st. Please register before September 28th to save on registration fees.

There will not be any meetings during the summer months. Meetings will be on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from September 2016 through May 2017. Meetings are held at Valicia’s Ristorante, 2155 Long Pond Rd., Rochester 14606 (just north of Route 31, Gates).

I wish everyone a safe and enjoyable summer. See you in September.

Alan Smith, P.E. Rochester Chapter President

Meeting Notice – Save the Date Topic:

Annual Golf Outing

Date:

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Time:

10:00 tee-off

Place:

Victor Hill Golf Club, 1450 Brace Road, Victor

Credits:

(bragging rights at dinner for any eagles made)

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$75.00 (includes lunch, 18 holes of golf, dinner, awards & prizes).

Make checks payable to Rochester Chapter ASPE.

RSVP:

To Jennifer Wengender, Clark-Patterson Lee, 205 St. Paul Blvd., Rochester, NY 14604 (if not already signed up, contact Jennifer immediately).

Affiliate Liaison: ADAM FRENZEL Empire State Associates.

181 Bay Village Drive Rochester, NY 14609 585-602-0271

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Future meetings: September 21st, October 19th.

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Monroe Professional Engineers Society A Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers 657 East Avenue, Rochestter, New York 14607 Dedicated to Professionalism in Engineering in the Interest of Public Safety and Welfare 2015-16 Officers: President Chris Devries, PE, President-elect David Roberts, PE, Vice President Chris Kambar, PE, Secretary Derek Anderson, PE, Treasurer Neal Illenberg, PE, Membership Chair Chris Devries, PE

12th Annual Engineering Symposium in Rochester a Huge Success!

Over 450 engineering professionals were in attendance on April 26, 2016 at the 12th annual Engineering Symposium in Rochester. With a peak attendance of 456, this marks three consecutive years of recorbreaking attendance. Held at a new venue, the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Rochester, the symposium featured 37 accredited courses for professional engineers. Each P.E. in attendance was given the opportunity to earn up to seven professional development hours (PDHs).

Courses included topics such as Traffic Signal Coordination, Harnessing Wind Energy, and Building Automation systems. The courses were spread over several tracks of engineering disciplines including: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Plumbing & Fire Protection, and Lighting & Keynote speaker Richard Cartwright addresses attendees on the topic of Power.

Engineered Natural Treatment Systems & Ecological Restoration Designs

The keynote speaker was Richard Cartwright, a licensed professional engineer with a BES degree in Chemical Engineering and an MBA in Operations Management. Mr. Cartwright spoke on the topic: Incorporating Engineered Natural Treatment Systems & Ecological Restoration Designs for a Longterm Sustainable & Greener Environment. His animated, entertaining, and informative presentation featured topics such as Built & Natural Environments, Wetland Definition & Benefits, and Ecological Restoration Construction.

The Monroe Professional Engineers Society (MPES) heads up this event with close support from the Rochester Engineering Society (RES), as well as support from several other engineering societies including: the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE), the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES), and the New York State Association of Transportation Engineers (NYSATE).

A special thank you goes to Lynne Irwin of RES who manages a number of tasks behind the scenes which makes this event go smoothly and Jen Miller of the New York Sate Society of Professional Engineers (NYSSPE) who supports us in getting PDH accreditatin for nearly all the courses.

If you'd like more information about the symposium, please visit the website: http://www.engineeringsymposiumrochester.com/ As always, if you's like to volunteer to assist MPES with events or activities, please contact me at dcrobertspe@gmail.com or contact MPES through our website at www.monroepes.org/contact-us/.

David C. Roberts, P.E., President-elect, MPES mpes news

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Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association Website: www.gvlsa.com

Year 2016 Officers President Roy B. Garfinkel, LS Vice President Jared R. Ransom, LS Secretary Robert J. Avery, LS Treasurer Michael A. Venturo, LS

Board of Directors

June 2016

2014-2016 Clifford J. Rigerman, LS Joseph J. Hefner, LS 2015-2017 Jeffrey A. Tiede, LS Scott E. Measday, LS 2016-2018 Justin M. Roloson, LS Douglas W. Magde, LS

John F. Gillen, LS, ex officio

Tentative 2016 Meeting Dates July 22 NYSAPLS Board of Directors Meeting Long Island, NY

June Sporting Clays

July Family Picnic, planning is underway for a family picnic/BBQ. More information to follow.

This year’s event will be held at

Thursday, September 8

The Batavia Rod and Gun Club

Webinar Re-Broadcast. Speaker TBD

Thursday, October 20

on Friday June 17th.

Livingston County Dinner

Thursday, November 17 BOD & General Membership Meeting and Webinar or Presentation

Batavia Rod and Gun Club 1059 West Bethany Road West Bethany, NY 14054

Registration 2:30 to 3:30 pm Shooting 4:00 to 6:00 pm Professional Affiliations • • •

New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors, Inc. National Society of Professional Surveyors Rochester Engineering Society

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Dinner to follow at Center Street Smoke House in Batavia

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36 Annual Invitational Golf Outing Monday Scramble Format July 11, 2016 This event sells out... space is limited!

LeRoy Country Club

7759 East Main Rd, LeRoy NY 14482

Schedule & Golf Package

10:00 a.m. SHOTGUN START at Club House [Registration opens at 9:00 am]

REGISTER EARLY FOR DISCOUNTED PRICE! EAWNY Members $90 by 6/15 ($110 after 6/15) Non-Members $120 by 6/15 ($140 after 6/15) Price is determined by date payment is received!

Price Includes: 18 Holes of Golf, cart, coffee and donuts at registration, lunch at the turn [choice of hotdog or hamburger, chips and beverage], one free beverage ticket (good at the beverage cart), buffet dinner and prizes.

Beverage Tickets

Each golfer receives one free beverage ticket that can be used at the Beverage Cart. Additional drinks may be purchased directly from the Beverage Cart Driver [cash only] .

Hole Sponsorship

Here's an opportunity for your company to be a sponsor of EAWNY's 36th Annual Invitational Golf Outing.

A $60 per hole sponsorship will display your company name at the tee for all EAWNY member golfers and guests to see. Show your company's contribution and dedication to the Electrical Association and check the appropriate box on the Registration/Sponsor Form.

Buffet Dinner

Even if you are not a golfer, reserve now for dinner.

Tickets are only $25 per person.

Come out early to enjoy LeRoy Country Club's facilities.

Join the golfers for cocktails before dinner.

Prize Donations

Prizes are needed and will be greatly appreciated.

The value should be approximately $15 or greater.

Donations indicated on Registration/Sponsor Form will be recognized in the program.

Electrical Association of Western New York PO Box 20219, Rochester, New York 14602-0219 Phone: 585-382-9545 Fax: 585-382-9455 www.eawny.com ~ karen@eawny.com

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Directory of Professional Services John E. Rooney

REGIONAL MARKETING MANAGER | DIRECTOR

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Geophysical Services • Seismic

• MASW, Seismic Site Classification, Refraction/Reflection

• Ground Penetrating Radar

• Concrete Inspection (Voids, Rebar, Thickness, Mapping)

• Electromagnetic • Vibration Monitoring

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Electrical & Mechanical Engineering & Design

Industrial Water Treatment Compliance Plans, Permits, and Reports Stormwater Design Management Compliance Auditing Civil/Site Design NPDES/Air/Solid Waste Engineering Environmental Design and Engineering Evaluation

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Directory of Professional Services, continued Join Us Wednesday, May 25, 2016 RES Annual Meeting at the Rochester Museum & Science Center Details on the website at:

www.roceng.org

Directory of Business Services Philip J. Welch

First Vice President - Investments

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

Member FINRA/SIPC

200 Meridian Centre Suite 260 Rochester, NY 14618 Direct: 585-241-7546 Fax: 585-241-3986 Toll Free: 877-237-6201 philip.welch@wellsfargoadvisors.com

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Affiliated Societies of the Rochester Engineering Society American Consulting Engineering Companies of New York President, David J. Meyer, 585-218-0730 Email: dmeyer@pathfinderengineers.com American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Rochester Section Chairman, Vincenzo G. Marcello, 585-422-0043.

Email:Vincenzo.Marcello@SDMS.usa.xerox.com American Public Works Association Monroe County/Genesee Valley Branch Past-Chairman, Geoff Benway Email: gbenway@ci.webster.ny.us American Society of Civil Engineers, Rochester Section President, Sam Anthony, PE Email: AnthonyES@erdmananthony.com

Electrical Association Executive Director, Karen Lynch Email: karen@eawny.com President, Joseph Dombrowski, PE, LC, M/E Engineering, PC

New York Water Environment Association Inc., Genesee Valley Chapter (www.gvcnywea.org) President, Bill Davis, 585-381-9250 Email: william.davis@mrbgroup.com Professional Services Management Association, Upstate New York Chapter President, Margaret Rathmell, SWBR Email: mrathmell@swbr.com

Genesee Valley Land Surveyors Association President, John F. Gillen, LS Ex-Officio, Robert Hatch, 585-349-3750.

Email: bhatch@schultzpc.com

Refrigeration Service Engineers Society Executive Director, Kirstie Steves 585-313-8972, fax 538-6166, Email: kirstie@rses-rochester.org President, Jim Allen, email: jta141@yahoo.com

Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Inc., Rochester Section President, Dwight Roth, Zeller Automation Email: droth@zellercorp.com Imaging Science & Technology, Rochester Chapter President, David Odgers Email: odgers@frontiernet.net

Sheet Metal & Air-Conditioning Contractor’s National Association-Rochester, Inc. Executive Director, Aaron Hilger 585-586-8030. Email: mzin@smacnaroc.org

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Rochester Chapter President, Christina Walter Email: cmwalter@trane.com

Independent Entrepreneurs Council, Rochester NY Chapter Chairman, Ralph Kraft, 585-621-6946

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Rochester Section Chairman, Steven Ivancic, University of Rochester Email:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Rochester Section Chairman, Greg T. Gdowski, 585-275-2580 Email: Greg_Gdowski@urmc.rochester.edu

Society of Plastics Engineers, Rochester Section President, Brett Blaisdell, Bausch & Lomb, 1400 North Gooaman Street, Rochester, NY 14609 585-338-5417, Email: brett.blaisdell@bausch.com

American Society of Plumbing Engineers, Rochester New York Chapter President, Alan Smith, IBC Engineering 585-292-1590. Email: asmith@ibceng.com

Institute of Industrial Engineers, Rochester Chapter President, John Kaemmerlen, 585-475-2767 Email: jxkpdm@rit.edu

Society of Women Engineers President, Jodi Carville, RIT, 585-475-7028 Email: jody.carville@rit.edu

Association for Bridge Construction and Design President, Kevin H. Miller, PE 716-852-3211 Email: kmiller@bergmannpc.com

International Council on Systems Engineering, Finger Lakes Chapter President, Jack Riley Email: jackri2139@hotmail.com

Association For Facilities Engineering, Rochester Chapter President, Matthews Knights, 585-924-2186 x221 Email: mknights@ultrafab.com

Monroe Professional Engineers Society President, Christopher Devries, PE Email: CDevries@calvauto.com New York State Association of Transportation Engineers, Section 4 President, Howard R. Ressel, 585-272-3372.

Email: Howard.Ressel@dot.ny.gov

Societ of Manufacturing Engineers, Chapter 16 Chairman, John F. Schmitt, 585-581-1880

Corporate Members of the Rochester Engineering Society Bergmann Associates P.C. (Enterprise)

BME Associates

Greenman-Pedersen, Inc. IBC Engineering, PC (Champion)

LaBella Associates (Enterprise) M/E Engineering, P.C.

CHA Consulting (Champion)

MRB Group (Champion)

Erdman Anthony Associates

Optimation Technology, Inc. (Champion)

Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce (RBA)

Passero Associates

affiliated societies & corporate members of the rochester engineering society

Rochester Institute of Technology, Kate Gleason College of Engineering TY-LIN International (Champion) Visron Design, Inc. V.J. Stanley Inc.

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